Posted on 03/13/2009 5:27:08 AM PDT by curth
“I favored Obama over McCain because I thought Obama to be a middle-of-the-road Democrat, exactly the kind I have supported all my adult life.”
- Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money
A little over two years ago, then-Sen. Barack Obama stormed onto the American political landscape as a breath of fresh air in a tired partisan environment. Democrats vowed to oust a Republican Party led by an unpopular president, while Republicans scrambled to defend their quickly fading majority.
Emerging behind the scenes was a new voice, a powerful and charismatic orator named Barack Obama. As the Democratic primary edged closer, most commentators wrote off Obama as too young and inexperienced to be a serious contender in 2008. Popular wisdom penned him as the rising star , who would likely be ready in 2016. But with Republican strategists and pundits focusing the entirety of their firepower on the larger perceived threat of Hillary Clinton, Obama brought his dazzling message to the national scene as the beloved underdog, ready to make history and promising hope.
The rest, is history. Obama soon became President Obama and carried with him feelings of good will and hope for prosperity reminiscent of John F. Kennedy’s Camelot. He had more political capital than any president in recent memory, wielding the weapons of anti-Bush sentiment, powerful rhetoric and far-reaching promises.
Some hoped he would be a savior of sorts, paying off mortgages and rescuing the poor. Most viewed him as a brilliant and historic leader, a Clinton-JFK hybrid that would mend the domestic divide, rebuild international diplomacy, and move away from a now-demonized Bush Administration.
Like much of America, that is what Jim Cramer thought about Obama. Cramer, a financial commentator for TheStreet.com, and energetic host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” has been a Democrat all his life.
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One had to be an idiot in the first place to believe ANYTHING this shyster utters.
Cramer was a fool. I /we saw it all along.
Obama or Cramer?
Which Clinton is this moron talking about.
That’s because he, like other idiots in the world, couldn’t believe that Obama could possibly be a conman, a shuckster, a snake oil salesman. They wanted to believe he was a just a good, decent guy who was going to to what was best for America and not himself. They were wrong, and stupid.
I love it when two people I dislike go after each other. It’s a win win for me!
If Cramer had been paying attention he'd have noted that Barak Obama has had the skids greased for him by both the Democrat National Committee & the Chicago Machine. He's also been the #1 or #2 rated liberal in the US Senate during his short tenure. This makes me wonder why anybody worked up about 'partisanship' could consider voting for a candidate who can't spell 'compromise.'
I don't know if Jim Cramer is a good investment advisor, but he obviously doesn't pay too much attention to politics.
Obama... well probably both.
This is unbelievable, sycophantic slobbering. What is "intelligent" or "brilliant" about Obombah? He reads from a teleprompter words written by others. To me, that means he's a nothing, no "style" other than what others make, no "substance", because when you parrot what others write for you, you have no mind of your own.
They were looking at O’s race, not his character. It’s MLK’s dream on its head.
Wrong!!! SOME, maybe, but not "most".
“I thought Obama to be a middle-of-the-road Democrat”
A politician from the stop-over city for the fly-over people, is a middle-of-the road democrat, not a chance.
What was Cramer smoking? Obama never came off as middle of the road.
He displays his lack of judgment, and shows that he is poor judge of human character.
“....He reads from a teleprompter words written by others....”
His head swings left to right like he is at a tennis match.
Transilation From the sewers of Chicago politics a slick black hustler who reads a teleprompter with flourish had his image image enhanced by a fanning press emerged with Hollywood special effects and proved to be nothing more than an empty suit.
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